Trigona
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See also: trigona
Translingual
Etymology
Coined by naturalist Louis Jurine in 1807.[1] Compare Latin trigōna (“triangular”).
Proper noun
Trigona f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Apidae – three species of vulture bees and many other stingless bees.
- A taxonomic subgenus within the family Apidae – Trigona (Trigona).
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Holometabola – superorder; Hymenoptera – order; Apocrita – suborder; Apoidea – superfamily; Apidae – family; Apinae - subfamily; Meliponini - tribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Duckeola, Frieseomelitta, Geotrigona, Tetragona, Tetragonisca, Trigona - subgenera
- Trigona australis, Trigona hypogea - selected species
Derived terms
- Aparatrigona
- Apotrigona
- Axestotrigona
- Celetrigona
- Cephalotrigona
- Cleptotrigona
- †Cretotrigona
- Dolichotrigona
- Ebaiotrigona
- †Exebotrigona
- Geniotrigona
- Geotrigona
- Heterotrigona
- Homotrigona
- Hypotrigona
- Lepidotrigona
- Leurotrigona
- Liotrigona
- Lisotrigona
- Lophotrigona
- Nannotrigona
- Odontotrigona
- Oxytrigona
- Papuatrigona
- Paratrigona
- Pariotrigona
- Ptilotrigona
- Scaptotrigona
- Trichotrigona
- Trigonisca
- Wallacetrigona
References
Trigona on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Trigona on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Trigona on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- ^ Jurine, Louis (1807) Nouvelle méthode de classer les hyménoptères et les diptères [New method for classifying Hymenoptera and Diptera] (in French), Geneva: J.J. Paschoud
Italian
Etymology
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Proper noun
Trigona m or f by sense